I talked to people at the Film Center in Japan last month. They have
assembled a team to investigate and catalog exactly what is in the
collection. However, as of last month, they had not actually gone to
the house and extracted anything. Everything is exactly as he left
it---a big mess. There are rumors that there are a couple important
lost films in the piles of films, but the Film Center people are trying
not to get their hopes up. Nothing is certain until they open cans, and
that will still take quite a bit of time at this pace.
Markus
A. M. Nornes
University of Michigan
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